Edmore is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,249 people and just one neighborhood, Edmore is the 450th largest community in Michigan.
When you are in Edmore, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.01% of Edmore’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Edmore is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Edmore who work in maintenance occupations (10.60%), sales jobs (9.32%), and office and administrative support (8.59%).
Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Edmore is worth considering.
Edmore is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Edmore are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.23% of adults in Edmore have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Edmore in 2022 was $22,305, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,220 for a family of four. However, Edmore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Edmore home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Edmore residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Edmore include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Edmore is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 3.6% have Dutch ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Edmore are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 33.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.8%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.5%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Edmore, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.1%) and 8.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.